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CatacOmbs of Paris.

Most people have heard of the cata-
combs of Paris, but few have visited
them or are aware of their vast ex-
tent. They were originally stone quar-
ries; the material used in building the
cathedral of Notre Dame, the Hotel
Cluny, the older portion of the Tuileries
and many other of the popular edifces
of Paris having been derived from this
source. So extensive were their rami-
fications that of Paris within the walls
more than tenth part is said to have
been honey-combed in this manner. 1t
was not till within the last one hundred
years that the quarries have served the
purpose or received the name of cata-
combs. Many Partisan churches and
cemeteries have transferred the re-
mains of their dead to the keeping of
the catacombs. These are now under
the care of irregular corps of workmen,
who attend to the arrangement of the
bones, keep the galleries in order and
are constantly on the watch against
subsidences of earth, which would
otherwise be of frequent occurrence.
The galleries have been carefully sur
veyed and their course compared with
that of the superjacent thoroughfares.
Indicating tablets are put up at fire.
quent intervals, so that skilled per-
son can at any moment name the street,
and even the number of the house,
which is above his head Without
such knowledge or competent guide,
however, woe betide the Inflated
wretch who should venture to explore
these grim recesses.
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advertisements.
"NEARLY CRAzED

with pain" is the sad cry of many n victim
of rheumatism or neuralgia, and frequently
other diseases, such as kidney and liver
complaints, are directly traceable to rheu-
matism or neuralgia These diseases, for
some unexplainable reason, are rapidly in
creasing, and in many instances are the
direct cause of much sickness which so
hides its real origin as to he mistaken for
other diseases. In curing rheumatism, neu-
ralgia, sick headache, and in many cases Of
kidney and liver troubles, Athlophoros has
wrought wonders. Those who have used
it are best qualified to speak of its merit.
Great Falls, N. H., March r. 1886.
With me Athlophoros outsells all rheu-
matism medicines and herewith give you
one sample of its work in this place Mr..
Cyrus Curtis has been so afflicted with
rheumatism that for the past three years
he has been unable to walk, except to put
one foot out and drag the other up to it
and thus get along Three weeks ago ]
recommended Athlophoros to him. Two
bottles has so las he states) unloosened him
that he can walk natural again. He is
now an earnest advocate of Athophoros.
f. II. WINGATE, Druggist
Greenfield, Mass, May 10, 1886.
have been troubled with rheumatism
in one of my knees for years, being at times
laid up for several days. Athlophoros has
entirely cured me. 1t has also cured two
friends of mine who were the worst cases
| ever saw, one of them a young man only
Is years old. who was so bad the doctors
gave him up. Two bottles of your remedy
entirely cured him. | heartily recommend
it to any one troubled with rheumatism.
GEO. w. SPuRR,
Manager Diamond Soap Co.
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
not be bought Of the druggist the Athlo-
phoros Co., liz Wall ST., New York, will
send either Carriage paid on receipt Of
regular price, which is Sl.00 per bottle
for Athlophoros and soc. for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia in
digestion, weakness nervous debility, diseases
of women constipation, headache, impure
blood, &c, Athlophoros Pills are unequaled,
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Uncle Sans Bookcase

In an article on this subject, in the
April Cosmopolitan, Frank G.. Carpen-
ter says: " 1t contains five hundred
sixty thousand bound volumes, two
hundred thousand pamphlets and three
hundred fifty thousand sheets of mu-
sic, and it has tens of thousands of
works of art, maps and photographs.
Its annual increase from copyright
alone amounts to from twenty to thirty
thousand volumes. 1t is the great
brain-reservoir of the United States.
1t contains complete index of the
workings of the American mind.
Everything in literature, music or art
that is copyrighted must be deposited
in it, and the brain reels in attempting
to conceive how many lives of intellec-
tual workers are packed away upon its
shelves. In company with one of its
librarians | lately took walk through
its various parts, and spent nearly a
halliday winding in and out through
aisle after aisle and wall after wall of
books, picking my way between great
stacks of volumes and entering room
after room which the eye of the ordn-
airy visitor never sees. The national
library is at the west end of the great
capitol. Its thousands of volumes have
long since overlooked its capacity, I'M
til now every available inch of space is
utilized and every room in the vicinity
is stacked with books. The very floors
of the library are piled up with over
flow, and the shelves seem almost
bursting with their tightly-packed con-
tents. The library proper, which is
also the reading-room, consists of a
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EDITDS Pmples. Skin Blemishes and Bf
UhODS, Humors curedby CuTIoURA so.
Catarrh TO CONSUMPTION,

Catarrh in its destructive force stands next to and
undoubtedly leads on to consumption. 1t is there
fore singular that those afflicted with this fearful
disease should not make it the object of their lives
to rid themselves of it. Deceptive remedies con
cocted by ignorant pretenders to medical knowledge
have weakened the confidence of the great majority
of sufferers in all advertised remedies. They be-
come resigned to life of misery rather than tor
ture themselves with doubtful palliatives.
But this will never do. Catarrh must he met at
every stage and combated with all might In
many the disease has assumed dangerous
symptoms. The bones and cartilage of the nose, the
organs of hearing of seeing and of tasting affected
as to be useless, the uvula elongated, the throat
so nfamed and irritated as to produce a constant
and distressing cough
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE meets every phase of
Catarrh from a simple head cold to the most loah-
some and destructive stages II is local and consti-
tutiona Instant in relieving permanent in curing,
safe, economical and never-failing.
Each package contains one bottle of the RADICAL
CURE, one box CATARRHAL SOLVENT and an I'M
PROVED INHALER, with treatise; price 81
POTTER DRUG CHEMICAL Co., Boston.
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Pensions Granted.

To Ira G. Cameron, Berlin, IS a
month and $40 arrears; George w.
Batchelder, Morristown, IS month
and 1925 arrears; Oramel G. Clogston,
Montpelier, S4 month and 1926 ar
rears; Chauncy Carpenter, CRANKY, re-
Gently of Barre, restoration, "a month
and $4SS arrears; George A. Flanders,
East Hardwick, 81 a month and S3S
arrears; Cyrus F. Farnsworth, Worces-
ter, an increase from 81 to IS month
and S157 arrears; w. H. Emery, Eden,
an increase from IS to so month !;
John S. Green, Mortified, IS month
and S34S arrears; Almon b. Hayward
West Randolph, $12 month and 1854
arrears: Freeman York, Underhill
Center, recently of Marshfield, "a a
month and SIP arrears.
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A Blessed Secret.

1.-THE secret of the Lord is with them
that fear him." yet none in the busy
crowds among whom they move in the
noisy street know what is passing in
their hearts. An American citizen in
a foreign city, seeing the familiar flag
of his native land floating at the mast
head of ship, is inwardly moved by
the associations it revives to patriotic
feelings, to emotions of love, to fond
anticipations of his return to the joys
and pleasures of his fireside. But of
his secret thoughts the people about
him know nothing. To them the flag
of his country is but as one flag among
many others. They NEEDLE not with
the secret joys ii kindles within his
swelling breast. 1t is even so with the
secret of the Lord in good mans
breast He walks the street like other
men. Yet while their thoughts are of
things visible and earthly his are of
God and things unseen. He sees God
in everything about him. God is COM
muning with him, feasting him on holy
thoughts, quickenipg his spiritual as
pirations, comforting him with assur-
ances of his sonship.-Erchange.
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Anna Laws Dinner.

The winter of 1864 was a memoir
able one TO our nation. and forms an
epoch around which clusters memories
dear to the soldier heart of thousands
of men who were participants in the
stirring scenes of the great rebellion.
War, despite all its cruelties, presents
sometimes an adverse picture far diff
ferent from the tragedy of the battle
field. In the shifting of the panorama
of war, which disclosed the struggles
of mighty armies, northern Georgia
and eastern Tennessee became the
theater of conflict for time. General
Burnside, with about twenty thousand
men, was stationed in eastern Tennes-
see, with headquarters in the city of
Knoxville, then a place containing only
a few thousand inhabitants, but very
essential for either army as a strategic
point. Under orders, General Burn
side was to hold all roads and lines of
communication from which it was
possible for columns of troops from
Lees army in Virginia to debouch
upon the flank and rear of General
Thomas position at Chattanooga. The
Holston river runs by the city, and
throughout its course receives many
tributaries which water valleys of
great fertility, forming excellent "pas-
turage" for an army. In these valleys
were numerous mills run by water
power. In the fall of 1868 one division
of the Twenty-third Corps was en-
camped at and around Concord station,
on the East Tennessee railroad, and
near the confluence of Trench, Broad
and Little Tennessee rivers, with orders
to harvest the corn, wheat, oats, etc,
and prepare the grain for consumption
of the troops in the command. The
acting division commissary was Lieu
tenant Rankin of Chicago, since super
vising architect of the treasury depart
ment, and his chief clerk w. f. Sylla,
the present efficient city clerk of Elgin,
III. These officials took possession of
the various mills and with results of
forage trains soon set them in motion
and accumulated great quantities of
flour, which helped make it possible to
sustain the coming siege of Knoxville.
Between Concord and Knoxville re-
sided wealthy farmer named Russell.
He employed as housekeeper a young
woman named Anna Law. Miss Law
was fine-looking English girl, about
lNOhtJ WV ycaio VI aye, anu TcDcl W
the tips of her shoes. She frequently
provided meals for Union officers, and,
being very suave and shrewd, secured a
good deal of information which some
how slted through the lines. The Of
ficers of the SiXty-iirst Illinois Infantry
Colonel Dan Cameron commanding
were frequent guests. The colonel
talked so freely of war matters and
plans in presence of the fair entertainer
that it was found necessary to caution
him against indiscretion, caution
which he promptly resented Miss Law
also visited Knoxville, and, possessing
an inquisitive mind, gradually familiar,
lied herself with plans of Notifications
location and number of troops, and
much other information of value to a
general who should purpose an attack
Although the Union officers were quite
well convinced that Anna was a spy
it was difficult matter to prove, anC
she was simply subjected to espionage
In December, 1868, that great strate
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Mistellamp.
Written for the Waterman,
A Song Of My Native Land.
by JOHN HIGHLANDMAN.

ny JOHN HIGHLANDMAN.
will sing of dear Scotland, the land Of my birth,
Where laddie roved gay and free;
To me It's the loveliest spot on the earth.
And her memories aye dear to me.
Chorus-Although am far from famed Lochnagar,
And tar from the sweet river Dee,
Still my heart oft is there, in that dear land fair
The land of the gallant and free.
The rock crested mountains rise lofty and grand,
The pride of old Scotia, 80 rare;
All clad with the bright blooming heather they stand
The home of the eagle and deer.
ChorHs-Although am far, etc.
sweetly at even the nightngales sing
BY the banks of the clear winding stream
The woodlands and valleys with melody ring,
While Freedom and Love reign supreme.
Choras-Although am far etc.
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Soldiers Budget.
The Unconscious Orphan.

Mother, have found tear
In your eye How came II hereY
More are coming-now they chase
one another down your face.
How feel your bosom heave;
what does make you sob and grieve2
Let me wipe your tears away;
o, I cannot go to play.
why is father sleeping so2
Put me down and let me go
Let me go where can stand
Near enough to reach his hand
why, It feels as stiff and cold
As a piece of ice to hold
Lift me up to kiss his cheek;
Then perhaps he'll wake and and speak.
Mother, o It isn't he,
For he will not look at me
Father hadn't cheeks so white;
See, the lips are fastened tight.
Father always spoke and smiled,
Calling me his darling child;
He would give and ask a kiss
When came--but who is this?
If It's father, is he done
Speaking to his little one?
VIII he never, never more
Know and love me as before?
Could he hear what we have said?
Tell me, what is being dead2
O, he doesn't breathe breath;
Mother. what's the cause of death?
-SeIecte5
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STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, !
IICAS CnIrNTY SIS

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY, SIS.
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm of
+. j. CHENEY & Co., doing business
in the city of Toledo, county and state
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of
CATARRH that cannot be cured by the
use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
~ in my presence, this 9th day
{ er,, of December, A. ID. 1886.
SEAL A. w. GLEASON,
wv Notary Public.
p. Stalls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally and acts directly upon the
blood and mucus surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials, free.
f. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
GsS Sold by druggists; seventy-five
cents.
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SQuirrelsville was rent to its very
foundations. Tea at five O'Clock! The
Stebbinses must be going mad, for who
ever heard of a tea-party at that time?
The general opinion, however, was that
it was some new tangled idea derived
from Maria, in Boston, and then the
awful question came up to be decided
the proper thing to wear. Miss Deer
field, an old maid, who was third cousin
to a New York milliner, and a great
mitts to be the only wear, while Mrs.
Pennyroyal, one of the oldest inhab-
itants, leader in village politics and
president of two sewing circles, an
nounced her intention of going in a
winter coat and bonnet and wooden
gloves, which no persuasions could in
duce her TO remove; so that the result
was that the Stebbinses' best parlor
presented a most incongruous appear
ance when the fatal Oath of February
came round. Mrs. Stebbins in black
silk and the two Misses Stebbins in
pink and blue crazy-cloth stood on
either side of the door, according to i'm
plicit directions from the oracle in Bos-
ton, and shook hands stifily with the
molly crowd that presented itself, half
in evening dress and half in the thick
est garments. Nobody knew what to
do or say. Everybody stood about in
awkward silence until some more brill
liant conner walked into the dining-room
where 10, and behold. Betsey Barnard
and the Simpkins girl were pouring out
tea at opposite ends of a black walnut
table, to furnish each and all with that
mild but cheerful beverage, and Miss
! Bridget O'Brien was close at hand in
the pantry closet, dish-cloth within
reach and pan of steaming hot water
before her. ready to wash the cups and
saucers in the twinkling of an eye in
case there shouldn't be enough to 90
around. There were plates of thin
bread-and-butter at the four corners of
the table. Squirrelsville came, saw and
took in the exact condition of affairs.
| There was not bit of bread and butter
left on any plate, the tea-pots were dry
as the desert of Sahara and Bridget in
the pantry was an absolute wreck when
the afternoon tea went out at half-past
six O'clock. Mrs. Stebbins had nervous
prostration, having discovered three
holes in the parlor carpet, leg off the
best sofa and six of grandpa's blue
India cups missing, not to mention the
dreadful consumption of tea at ninety
cents pound. The Misses Stebbins
felt that fashionable life would never
suit them and that Boston ideas could
never be successfully assimilated by
Squirrelsville society. And Mrs Penny
royal uttered the sentiments of the en-
tire village when she proclaimed loudly
on the way home: " Wall, if wouldn't
ha' been mortified to have asked hull
tea-party to my house, and not to ha'
given 'em anything better'n tea n
bread-n'-butterl Why, sakes alive! Ive
got crock o. doughnuts to home
she might a had as well as not, if she
couldn't scare up nothin' of her own -
T.. W., IN Boston Herald.
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l have suffered all my life with skin diseases of
different kinds and have never found permanent re-
lief until by the advice of lady friend used your
valuable CUTICuRA REMEDIES. | gave them n
thorough trial, using six bottles of the CUTICURA
REsoLvENT, two boxes of CUTICURA and seven
cakes of CuTICURA SOAP, and the result was just
what had been told 1t would be--d complete cure
BELLE WADE Richmond. Va.
Reference, q. w. Latimer, Druggist, Richmond Va.
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DRUGGISTS ENDORSE THEM.

Have sold quantity of your CuTICURA RENE
DIES. One of my customers, Mrs. Henry Kintz, who
had letter on her hands to such extent to cause
the skin to peel off and for eight years she suffered
greatly, was completely cured by the use of your
medicines. C.N. NYE. Druggist, Canton, Ohio.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
SKIN ssSCALP
Cleansed, Purified and Beautified
by the Cuticura Remedies.

For cleansing the Skin and Scalp of Disfiguring
Humors, for alaying Itching Burning and lnflam-
nation, for curing the first symptoms of Eczema,
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other inherited Skin and Blood Diseases, CUT1CURA,
the great Skin cure, and CUTICURA SOAP, an ex-
quisite Skin beautifer, externally, and CUT1CURA
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SALT RHEJJM CURED.

was troubled with Salt Rheum for number of
years so that the skin entirely came off of my
hands from the finger tips to the wrist. tried rem.
edies and doctors prescriptions to no purpose until
I commenced taking CUTiCuRA REMEDIES, and now
| am entirely cured
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ITCHING, sCALY. PIMPLY.

For the last year have had species of itching,
scaly and pimplv humors my face. to which have
applied great many methods of treatment without
success. and which was speedily and entirely cured
by CUTICURA,
MRS. ISAAC PHELPS, Ravenna, o.
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NO MEDICINE LIKE THEM

We have sold your CUTICURA REMEDIES for the
last six years, and no medicines on our shelves give
better satisfaction.
c.. ATHERTON, Druggist, Albany. n. Y.
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CUTIcURA REMEDIES are sold everywhere. Price:
CuTICuRA, fifty cents; REsoLvENT, ~ 90; Soar,
twenty cents. Prepared by the POTTER DRUG
AND CHEMICAL Co.. Boston, Mass. Send for
How to Cure skin Diseases"
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Five O'Clock Tea in Squirrelsville.

The very funniest thing in all the
annals of afternoon teas was that which
the Stebbinses gave, or tried to give, not
long ago in Squirrelsville, town which
every student of geography will i'm
mediately locate in northern New
Hampshire. They were quiet, unos-
tentatious folk, of country sort, whose
only claim to distinction lay in the fact
that Mrs. Stebbins had a married sister
who lived in Boston. The sister, being
a slave to fashion, naturally felt morti-
fed and aggrieved that Mrs. Stebbins
should exist in such dense ignorance
of the customs and manners of the beau
monde, and that the maiden Stebbinses
should grow up into young woman
hood without making any formal debut
into the circles of Squirrelsville society.
Letters flowed in to the Stebbins house
hold urging its head and cornerstone
to plunge into the giddy whirl of dissi-
patton, and at last in despair Mrs. Steb-
bins gave way, and, following the
instructions of her mentor in Boston
electrified the whole town by sending
out sundry bits of limp pasteboard in
scribed in Williams best round hand
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GOOD brains are often kept in poor
looking vessel.
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: Mrs Isaac Stebbns. The Misses Stebbins. :
. HdiSey Lane. :.
: Thursday, Feb. "a. Five o'clock tea. .
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THE MISSES BRIDGMAN, graduates OF the Mon
roe School Of Oratory and Dramatic Art, are pre-
pared to give instruction In yoice-cuture, expies-
sion, gesture and rendition. They will respond to
calls for associations lecture courses, literary and
church societies. i. o. address, Hardwiek. Vt,
The Irish standard., 1887-08-27

he exclaimed, swinging the tvarmint'
round with the intention of throwing
him over the hedge to the hounds. But
Tim Croak, with tears in his eyes
snatched Kerryman from him.
AS long as the fox runs he's caught
at last, said Tim; but never thought
this is TIE way he'd die. An begob,
Matt, you're the last man in Ireland
I'd suspect for SIGH thing
Between ourselves, Tim replied
Matt, in an undertone, I had no hand
in it. [ CHANGED to look into the fowl
house, and there had him PINNED. I
on'y called the dog and shut the door,
an that's all [ know about it. But [
don't want to give those fellows any
satisfaction.'
Horror struggled with incredulity in
every face in the red coated throng.
hey could not believe their eyes. Matt
Hazlitt-a loyal rotestant--to be guilty
OF such crime! Miss Evans was just
then approaching the scene Of the trag-
edy, and her other admirer becoming
dangerous TO every one in his vicinity,
a diversion was created in Matt Hax-
litt's favor. The huntsman dismounted
and was opening the rustic gate, knife
in hand, with view OF appropriating
Kerryfaan's brush, when Captain Daw-
son called to him to come back, and
told Tim to get the old fox stuffed
The huntsman touched his cap sulkily,
while Tim was evidently consoled by
this mark Of respect to the remains of
his fayolite. The hounds proceeded to
Rathcopple, and Matt HaZlitt asked
Tim to come in and sit down.